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Creative types often have sensory differences and staying up at night helps alleviate the overload that intense sunlight and people cause.

I know because I am on the spectrum and suffer from overload. At night is my "flow time" when the creativity happens.

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The night is my best time too, but I’d hesitate to say that for most folks this has to do with the night being quieter.

The clock just has that spread. And I’d argue it makes evolutionary sense. You want people who are alert later, in a group. But this holds for most animals too.

In my case I interpret it as my "safe time". At night, the world sleeps, and no one is waiting on me, or going to randomly interrupt me. When other people sleep, obligations sleep too.

No? I guess I can't speak for most, but one of the things I most notice being different, other than the light of course, is the noise.

Autism correlates with specific neanderthal genes. There is a hypothesis that neanderthals were nocturnal based on the larger eyes and visual cortex.

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